7 Quick Takes: Pretend This Has An Interesting Title

7 Quick Takes

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Blech. I’m actually in bed right now sipping some Coke to see if it will help calm my stomach. My Annie’s Deluxe Shells and Real Aged Cheddar is not sitting well on my stomach tonight for some reason and I’m not feeling like staying up at the kitchen table when I’m feeling nauseous like this.

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Hoping and praying for this! The weather powers-that-are seem to be predicting a strong El Niño this winter for California. For those who are confused, an El Niño event means a seriously wet winter for California, especially northern California, and this could really help with the current drought situation. The last really significant El Niño I remember was during my senior year of high school and it meant massive flooding in some places and huge storms in the Sierras. (And yes, I’m aware that “Sierras” is redundant.)

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Simcha nails it again. Her latest excellence: Is Your Facebook Feed the Sea of Galilee or the Dead Sea?. The reason for its excellence: I’ve found the most ignorant people I’ve met to be the ones who surround themselves with people who think the way they do, believe the way they do, and vote the way they do. My blog readership is pretty diverse and I read a pretty wide variety of blogs as well. While I don’t agree with ever blogger out there, some of them say some interesting things and I think I understand why people might vote differently as I do as a result.

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Taking a page from Bonnie. Bonnie usually starts her Quick Takes off with a song so here’s my latest discovery.

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Wow. One of my friends from Reece’s Rainbow shared this today. You seriously need to watch it.

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Why you should leave service dogs alone. Someone distracted a woman’s service dog, even after being instructed by the woman to stop petting him, and she was injured while having a seizure. Had her dog not been distracted, he could have signalled to her that the seizure was coming and they could have gotten her to a safe place.

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Prayer request. If y’all could please pray that my car would be done getting fixed tomorrow afternoon, I’d appreciate it. I have plans to head up to San Jose on Saturday and I can’t do that unless I have my car back because my rental car from my insurance company has to be returned the day my car is done being fixed. If I’m in San Jose, it will be impossible as I’ll be 350 miles north of where I’d need to return it and pick up my own car. Thanks!

For more Quick Takes, visit Bonnie (our guest hostess with the mostest) at A Knotted Life. While you’re visiting, congratulate her on her little one who is due on January 1st.